hello,

Please do not close tickets without proper details. We have zabbix support that we are valid.

We have installed zabbix agent on our Ubuntu 16.04 host and are running into issues during service start

root@irvubapp001:/var/log/zabbix-agent# systemctl status zabbix-agent.service
● zabbix-agent.service - Zabbix Agent
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/zabbix-agent.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2018-11-01 20:03:10 GMT; 1min 56s ago
Docs: man:zabbix_agentd
Process: 23069 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/zabbix_agentd (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Nov 01 20:03:10 irvubapp001 systemd[1]: Starting Zabbix Agent...
Nov 01 20:03:10 irvubapp001 zabbix_agentd[23069]: zabbix_agentd [23069]: Recursion detected! Skipped processing of '/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf'.
Nov 01 20:03:10 irvubapp001 systemd[1]: zabbix-agent.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Nov 01 20:03:10 irvubapp001 systemd[1]: Failed to start Zabbix Agent.
Nov 01 20:03:10 irvubapp001 systemd[1]: zabbix-agent.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 01 20:03:10 irvubapp001 systemd[1]: zabbix-agent.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
root@irvubapp001:/var/log/zabbix-agent# cd /var/run/zabbix/
root@irvubapp001:/var/run/zabbix# ls -tlr

Need help or assistance on why the issues are caused and this is critical.